Talk:Transportation Economic Development Impact System

TREDIS: Transportation Economic Development Impact System
A tag has been placed on TREDIS: Transportation Economic Development Impact System, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under the criteria for speedy deletion, because the article seems to be blatant advertising that only promotes a company, product, group, service or person and would need to be fundamentally rewritten in order to become an encyclopedia article. Please read the general criteria for speedy deletion, particularly item 11, as well as the guidelines on spam.

If you can indicate why the subject of this article is not blatant advertising, you may contest the tagging. To do this, please add  on the top of TREDIS: Transportation Economic Development Impact System and leave a note on the article's talk page explaining your position. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself, but don't hesitate to add information to the article that would help make it encyclopedic, as well as adding any citations from independent reliable sources to ensure that the article will be verifiable. Feel free to leave a note on my talk page if you have any questions about this. Fred Clark (talk) 16:49, 8 October 2008 (UTC)

I believe the article clearly meets the criteria for an entry in an encyclopedia. It is factual, it is referenced with external, verifiable sources and citations, and it provides information on a subject of wide public interest.

Furthermore, there is nothing of a blatant advertizing nature in this article. There are no adjectives or descriptors promoting it in any way, and it is no different in its style from articles about other transportation software articles already on Wikipedia (TransCAD, Cube Voyager and Transims). Moreover, there are well over 30 Google links verifying the wide public interest in this item.

Additionally, the article includes citations to four external guidebooks on federal government websites (calatogs of information on this topic), which serve to increase the encyclopedic value of this article. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Fred Clark (talk • contribs) 18:38, 8 October 2008 (UTC) I opine that the links to TransCAD, Cube Voyager and Transims should also be deleted. None of these yet owns the household names of Xerox, Kleenex, or Microsoft. Moreover most of the 30 Google links are those to sites developed by the firm that owns Tredis.